Clarence Craft earned the Medal of Honor on Okinawa when he single-handedly attacked and seized a Japanese hill, chasing the defenders into a cave and then blowing them up with a satchel charge. Honor et memores.  He served in Korea and then left the Army, volunteering later at the VA in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Read his Medal of Honor citation:

Rudolfo Hernandez, an Army paratrooper, earned the Medal of Honor on this day in Korea when he, despite grave injuries, beat back a Chinese communist attack.  Hernandez was horribly wounded in combat, and appeared dead, but a medic saw him move his fingers and started the life saving steps. Hernandez woke up a month later in an Army hospital and … Read More

Navy achieves the “impossible” and gets the Yorktown repaired and underway to fight at Midway in 48 hours. Honor et memores.

Lincoln Memorial dedicated on this day in 1922.

Captain William Galt earned the Medal of Honor posthumously on this day when he led a stalled infantry company against entrenched Germans in Italy, cut down while manning a tank-mounted machine gun. He was 24 years old and a Montana native who had been through years of combat already. Galt was from Geyser, Montana and had been part of ROTC … Read More

David Champagne earned the Medal of Honor posthumously when he saved three fellow Marines from a Chinese communist grenade, which he seized and flung out of his trench during fighting around the Punchbowl in 1952. From Wakefield, RI, Champagne worked in community theater prior to enlisting in 1951. Honor and remember him, Semper Fidelis!

Olympian Louis Zamperini’s plane crashed in the Pacific eight year ago yesterday, starting his ordeal as a POW as detailed in “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand – a must read! Honor and remember Zamperini and his fellow airmen.

Jimmy Phipps received the Medal of Honor posthumously in Vietnam when he absorbed a grenade blast with his body, saving his platoon commander and another Marine. Honor and remember him! Semper Fidelis!

“Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.” – FDR

First African-American to earn the Medal of Honor, and the last such Civil War veteran to physically receive the Medal, William Carney’s MoH ceremony on this day for saving the 54th Massachusetts’ colors in July 1863. Honor and remember!